The twenty-five contributors to Atoms for Peace grapple in many ways with nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism, and the future of nuclear energy. They include officials and scientists from a wide range of agencies and institutions. Among them are officials or former officials from Israel, Egypt, Pakistan, Canada, Korea, and Japan, from the U.S. departments of state, energy, and defense, the U.S. Senate, the National Security Council, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, MIT, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the College of William and Mary, and the University of California.Back in September 2005, our CEO, Skip Bowman, shared his own thoughts about "Atoms for Peace" in a speech he delivered at the World Nuclear Association Annual Symposium:
Atoms for Peace also includes a set of fundamental speeches and documents relating to Atoms for Peace and its institutions.
What if Mr. Eisenhower came back today and reviewed our progress?Read the rest right now.
There is a rule of thumb for advanced technologies that it takes about 30 years from proof-of-concept to full-scale commercial deployment. By that measure, I think we could tell Mr. Eisenhower that we’ve done rather well.
In the United States, within two years of his Atoms for Peace speech, we deployed our first nuclear-powered submarine. Within four years we reached full-power operation at our Shippingport reactor in Pennsylvania—really the first commercial-scale power reactor. Since then, we’ve built 434 power reactors around the world, which produce approximately 17 percent of the world’s electricity.
Not bad, Mr. Eisenhower.
But you know what he’d say? He’d say: “Nice start, but you’re not keeping pace with the challenge.”
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